Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

13 December 2021 at 23:10Reply to @SophiaCycles

@SophiaCycles “I sometimes think I see that civilizations originate in the disclosure of some mystery, some secret; and expand with the progressive publication of their secret; & end in exhaustion when there is no longer any secret, when the mystery has been divulged, that is, profaned.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 6 Nov 2021

@CarlMcColman Also recall a saying of the Prophet Mohammed (Sal.): "God hath treasures beneath the Throne, the keys whereof are the tongues of poets." And various characters in Gibran's peculiarly overlooked, 'Jesus, Son of Man' referring to Him repeatedly as a poet. world3.scribble.com/world3/meme1/space3/miracle.html

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Quoted by11 Aug 2022RT @nick_routledge: @noonessleep 1/ Ah, yes, the pivot of ostensible 'divisions' between inner and outer, and esoteric and exoteric, and so forth, and the challenge-opportunity such tension represents for recovering the invisible foundations of culture and a living relationship with transcendent ground of being.Quoted by11 Aug 2022@noonessleep 1/ Ah, yes, the pivot of ostensible 'divisions' between inner and outer, and esoteric and exoteric, and so forth, and the challenge-opportunity such tension represents for recovering the invisible foundations of culture and a living relationship with transcendent ground of being.